And how could a shiatty Voyager episode make the list, while no DS9 episodes did? The finale of season 6 was great... Dax was dead, Sisko was gone... way better than anything on Voyager.

I can see the end of the Tenth Planet being a huge WTF for viewers at the time, but aside from it being a great story, what made the end of the Caves of Androzani such a big cliffhanger? At that time, regeneration was old hat to the Who fans, and Baker II didn't try to choke a biatch until the next episode.

And how could a shiatty Voyager episode make the list, while no DS9 episodes did? The finale of season 6 was great... Dax was dead, Sisko was gone... way better than anything on Voyager.

I can see the end of the Tenth Planet being a huge WTF for viewers at the time, but aside from it being a great story, what made the end of the Caves of Androzani such a big cliffhanger? At that time, regeneration was old hat to the Who fans, and Baker II didn't try to choke a biatch until the next episode.

There were some pretty good episodes in that list. "The Incident" may be my favorite cliff-hanger. Say what you will about the rest of the show, but that ending had me dying to find out what was going to happen next.

Farscape had a bunch of good cliff-hangers. I was just thinking about popping those DVDs in again....

Yes. Robotech is. The meaning of that Episode is TOTALLY different in the original Macross Saga than it is in the Robotech series. That's the episode which sets the stage for the only reason humanity isn;t annihilated when Boddole Zer's main fleet folds into Earth orbit at the end of it and in the movies. It's also the reason why the UN Spacy in the later series spreads out to every planet they can possibly colonize - to keep humanity from being glassed on Earth again

/nerdout.

Snarfangel:The season 4 finale of Farscape -- "Bad Timing" was the most aggravating cliffhanger, if only because they cancelled the series immediately afterward.[www.johnaeryn.com image 572x354]

/Loved the series.//And thankfully, The Peacekeeper Wars tied up some of the loose ends.

They've actually continued it past the Peacekeeper wars through the comics using the actual likenesses of the original characters. I've heard it's pretty good. Turns Scorpio into a pretty interesting anti-hero at times.

Maybe you have to be a certain age to want these on the list, but there were some pretty good multi-part episodes on The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman (notably "Kill Oscar", the Fembot arc that crossed between series) and also The Incredible Hulk ("Mystery Man", "Prometheus", "The First"). Also, the entire original "V" miniseries was left unresolved for "The Final Battle" and there were cliffhanger endings within each miniseries (such as the birth scene).

who made it law that these articles have to be written by those born after 1980 that are unaware the world existed before 1960, and where can i go to slap that lawmaker upside the head?

thats why some children think rap, hip hop and dubstep is great music. no one ever bothered to expose them to recorded music from wayyyyyy back when. and they are too lazy to do for themselves. you choose to go through life ignorant as hell some people are going to point out you know little to nothing.

The only way that qualifies as sci-fi is that Bobby Ewing's apparent death created a dimensional rift between Dallas and Knots Landing. The entire season of Dallas in which Bobby Ewing was dead was revealed to have been a dream, but Knots Landing apparently stayed in the "dream" universe for seven more seasons and there were no further crossovers because of the discontinuity. Gary and Valene Ewing will appear in the next season of the TNT continuation of Dallas (with Bobby alive, obviously) and how the writers reconcile things is anyone's guess.

The BSG 'Lay Down Your Burdens' cliffhanger should have been number one. After that the show kind of went off the rails. It was always good if sometimes slow or just flat out weird, but it never again hit that high point.

Mid_mo_mad_man:Would have thought the last 5 minutes of the angel series would have been the best cliff hanger of the series

Pretty much this.

I'm as big of a Buffy/Angel fanboy as they come but I wouldn't have rated Angel's "Tomorrow" as #2 on this list. He's the main character of the series - it's not like they're going to leave him down there. I understand the Cordy bit too, but the fact she "knew" she was destined/bound or whatever for being on a higher plane and actually let it happen and abandoning Angel was, in my opinion, completely out of character and just had that "we need a nice way to get Cordy out of the picture for a while" feel to it. Thus the cliffhanger isn't as extreme as it seems.

At some point we will understand that these lists are not, or should not be, considered a countdown list. They are an aggregation of some individual's world view or a poorly conceived opinion seeker "poll" run by an intern.

AtlanticCoast63:The BSG 'Lay Down Your Burdens' cliffhanger should have been number one. After that the show kind of went off the rails. It was always good if sometimes slow or just flat out weird, but it never again hit that high point.

There were some truly epic beyond epic moments on that show. The scene where the raptors jump into the Cylon fleet in "Last Gleeming of Kobol", the heroic end of Pegasus, and most of the scenes with Helo surviving on a nuked Caprica were some of my favorites.